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During the Korean War, Captain Cleve Connell, a pilot with a solid reputation, arrives in Korea to fly the new F-86 jets against Soviet MiGs, hoping to down five and become an ace. Among the men around him are the brash wing commander Imil, Robey, an ace with a suspect record, and Pell, a cocky lieutenant with uncanny skill and luck. James Salter's 1956 debut novel closely follows the diary he kept as an F-86 pilot in 1952, and it was filmed in 1958 with Robert Mitchum.
Ryan Holiday counted it among the best books he read in 2015, a novel about the fire of ambition in a young fighter pilot and what it does to a person.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
First, James Salter’s The Hunters: A Novel was a magnificent book which focuses on the burning fire of ambition—in this case, that of a young fighter pilot—and what it does to us.
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